The Hindu : New Delhi News : Clearing of Yamuna Pushta on at brisk pace

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Monday, Apr 26, 2004

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Clearing of Yamuna Pushta on at brisk pace

By Lalit K. Jha

NEW DELHI, APRIL 25. Considered "next to impossible" till early February this year, the clearance of hundreds of slum dwellers from the Yamuna Pushta area is now going on at a brisk pace and that too during the politically volatile days of elections.

A vast stretch of the western Yamuna embankment, where thousands of people stayed in unhygienic and inhumane conditions and, as per police records, was a den of anti-social activists, has now been reduced to rubble. Officials claim that the beautification and development of the green belt along the river embankment from the ITO Bridge to the Old Yamuna Railway Bridge would follow soon.

While the Government officials, town planners and enlightened citizens of the Capital have welcomed the relocation drive being carried out at the direction of the Delhi High Court, the affected people -- who have been displaced - rue that the political leadership has let them down and the police too behaved in a high-handed manner.

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Clearing of Yamuna Pushta on at brisk pace